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A friend in London who attended ths first performance by the Bolshoi Ballet at Covent Garden has written to us about her exciting exper- ience:- '4 "It was s triumph; the Bolshoi Tnd nl?»novT last night proclaimed themselves ~s great as any one had hoped, expected, or dreamed o f/ The great roar of cheering thnt went up from Covent Garden as the curtain descended on the first net of MRon>eo and Juliet” proclaimed thi3 one of tha grert occasions in Movent Garden history. The bal- let w°.3 on a grand scrlc, with v-'.st, sombre scenes of gold and brown and dull red, set in the ancient city of Verona. Shakespeare1 £ tragedy was transformed into a new magic, the poetry of wonfe into the poetry of motion. "Covent Garden lifted its head*in excitement at this fresh wind which came with thj Bolshoi '8 first appearance in England. Ulanova shed many of her 47 years and was like a leaf blown on that wind in her incredible pirouettes. ' At the end of the first act she took two curtain calls, looking slightly bewildered while the audience clapped and reared their delight for several minutes. "Thousands surged round Covent Gardens before the show'started. Black marketeers wore demanding £5 for 6s. 6d. tickets." \ v\ > S2J* ORDER TOUR COPIES NOW » From the Secretary. ( 1 ) "The Bolshoi Theatre Ballet” : A beautiful art book with drawings ideal for framing. 124 pages 12 '*. x 9 M 7/6 ( 2 ) "Ulanova" 112 pages 5/- (3) "Galina Ulanova" 32 pages IP" x 9,. 5/- (4) "Galina Ulanova, The making of a Ballerina" 24 pages 2/9 (5) "Maya Plisetskaya"; 32 pages 1/6 ( 6 ) "Raise Kruchkova” ; 32 pages 1/6 MANY FINE PHOTOGRAPHS IN ALL THESE books ;

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A friend in London who attended ths first performance by the Bolshoi Ballet at Covent Garden has written to us about her exciting exper­ience:- ' 4

"It was s triumph; the Bolshoi Tnd nl?»novT last night proclaimed themselves ~s great as any one had hoped, expected, or dreamed o f / The great roar of cheering thnt went up from Covent Garden as the curtain descended on the first net of MRon>eo and Juliet” proclaimed thi3 one of tha grert occasions in Movent Garden history. The bal­let w°.3 on a grand scrlc, with v-'.st, sombre scenes of gold and brown and dull red, set in the ancient city of Verona. Shakespeare1 £ tragedy was transformed into a new magic, the poetry of wonfe into the poetry of motion.

"Covent Garden lifted its head*in excitement at this fresh wind which came with thj Bolshoi'8 first appearance in England. Ulanova shed many of her 47 years and was like a leaf blown on that wind in her incredible pirouettes. ' At the end of the first act she took two curtain calls, looking slightly bewildered while the audience clapped and reared their delight for several minutes.

"Thousands surged round Covent Gardens before the show'started.Black marketeers wore demanding £5 for 6s. 6d. tickets."

\v\ > S2J* ORDER TOUR COPIES NOW »

From the Secretary.

(1 ) "The Bolshoi Theatre Ballet” : A beautiful art book with drawings ideal for framing.

124 pages 12 '*. x 9M 7/6

( 2 ) "Ulanova" 112 pages 5/-

(3) "Galina Ulanova" 32 pagesI P " x 9 ,. 5/-

(4) "Galina Ulanova, The making of a Ballerina" 24 pages 2/9

(5) "Maya Plisetskaya"; 32 pages 1 /6

( 6 ) "Raise Kruchkova” ; 32 pages 1/6

MANY FINE PHOTOGRAPHS IN ALL THESE bo oks ;

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S U E Z A C o n c e s s io n----------- C o n O b : H e . c l ' -—

by y\\\\or> T w < S +

n hornet's nest has teen raised in world affairs over the R*it--/ ionelisation• of thfc Su«z Canal. The Soviet Union seiss it 'ba* p. new raid legitimate 3tage in Egypt’ s fight for rrticrr’l in­dependence, and consequently yees no cause for .'-11 the fuss*

After the Second World 'Tar,when the movement for ending foreign occupation sharply intensified in Egypt, the Soviet Unior. gavs firm support to Egyptian nation­al aspirations, *.s 3-arly as 1946, the Soviet delegation at the United IfatL ons General As­sembly raised the question of the withdrawal of foreign armed forces from the"territory of other countries, In the follow­ing year, during the Security Council's jdiscussion of the Egyptian i for the with­drawal of British Troops from the Canal Zone where they had been,for the last TC years, the Soviet representative stjvssod that this demand wa3 legitimate and justified. Pr&sident Nasser recently acknov/lodgidi ' ^ft^r the Second World '.Tar we i jit the Soviet Union helped us , It supported us every ti io our freedom was infringed in the United Nations.

NO AGREE- Suez h^s been nction- MEUT VIC- a lis e d but the USSR T.Z-TFLi does not accuse

Egypt of violating r-ny international agreements.

. She states categorically that all Egypt Irr. s done was to can­cel a concession to an Egypt­

ian company| the Suez Canal Com­pany, which had twelve more years to run. It is noted that Colonel t’.asser has pledged his country to uphold the 1888 Convention end its guarantees.

Egypt is assessed '■•S playing the role in the intern tional arehflf of an Arab state which opposes aggressive military blocs and intervention in the internal affairs of the ,*rab Countries.The Baghdad Pact i- regarded both by •&.« Soviet Union and Egypt as an aggressive military pace. Gamal xtbdel Nasser has branded the Baghdad Fact as a prison for the Middle. East.

Soviet-Egyptian political relations are obviously very cordial. These two countries can serve as models of how to practice peaceful co-ex- istunee. Fo-one would care to des- crib3 Colonel Nasser as a Social­ist or a Communist. So here we have two countries, with greatly differ­ing political systems, living in the closest of harmony with each other. Quite naturally this has lea in turn to cordial tr~de and cultural relations.

TrIELF 11TT-I Egypt is being assisted ,:Tc’2 C to develop the peacefulirjc'IOl. use of atomic energy. ~~ In addition to Egyptianphysicists going to the Soviet Union, for further training r.nd joint research, Egypt will be help­ed to build an experimental 2,000 killowatt atomic reactor.

Under the terms of the trade agree-

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Hr © W bk1!>/ - ^ O O k . W O ' ,5 'v \ —

The Stalin personality cull penetrated into.-literature fta it . into all public affairs* In feast: literaturu itself helped to spread it . :7

The tendency to vrj?niah end prettify reality began to creep into Soviet literary prc due tier s ir. the second half oi "thirties". Influenced by tl £ tiaosphere of the cult of the individual, many writers began to overlook the negative aspects and hardships of Soviet life . „• ‘ *

The love cf ilcgasr red doctrine angendered by the personality cult had an adverse effect v.pon Soviet literature. Instead of carry­ing out its scored duty of studying and comprehending the manifold phencs»ena of life , it ”11 too often contented itself with illus­trating generalities. The depiction of history end of life, the portrayal of individual characters was. in such,cases trimmed to fit a 3et pattern.

SPE^X IN STCCK PHRASES.

The function of art is to study life in its eternal process of development, in its eternal new­ness. The author who forgets this (and there were some who did) cannot product a true work of art, but only another book in which the characters will • stand in their alioted places, with the "ideal heroes" neces­sarily triumphing over stereo­typed "villains". The authors of such bocks neither take the trouble to think for themselves nor allow their characters any individual traits; they prefer to think and spe-k in stock phr^ses.

The laudation *"nd exaltation of Stalin became widespread in lit­erature. Some books belittled the rola of th- people, ascrib­ing to Stalin achievements for Ahich the credit was rightly due to the people. Literature

slackened its attention to the life of ordinary Soviet men andwomen.

CSANriM) h a l l

SUZZi L CONCESSION CANCELLED, Continued from Page 6 ._________

mont of Harch 27, 1954, the Soviet Union is supplying Egypt with in­dustrial equipment, tractors, ricultural machinery, motor ve­hicles, iron and steel products, oil products, timber, grain and pharmaceutical goods. Egypt i 3 - sending the Soviet Union cotton, rice, artificial silk, yarn, leather and hides-.

The exchange of groups of cultural' workers and sportsiaen is also pro-! moting friendship between the two countries,.

All in all, Soviet-Egyptian‘relations are of a kind which one wishes would! exist between all states. This is j surely worth working towards, for \ therein lies the hope of realising) peace on mother earth.______ ______

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K'*- # 0*y l*sh*, • to be merely ±llus-tvnti vc 1 •: ht for L>h no few dull, st nnd-.rdie od novels, plnys nnd r - . i z f i , '%* search for now artistic forma "nd ao-ns of depicting

v'■'^ywas reln/.ed, Critics lowered their nosthetic standards bv?.r. -t: , o:.'k by its ‘f.uthorVi intent, by his subject-

, *.

* ' n <s ■ -■*i .*• V - v >

2*.

EX-a.HN'5 ViC ,UIr? TP-3 0

it vx-ld be wrong H ran 3er«.v- sll ^vidt^Iitterr.tur^. of the l -stdetr nnd p;-v,?.aynco ixj- "3*K>flv;3;’ Ly uis personality

vult , ' 'u ' bac*c‘;?"r; e’i.'ffifrt 3 1 tr«ft4 1*1- ;v»rC3t 1* % +

: til — rj Covlet iitor^urv did not conceal the contra-:j */. •• d i. ieultioe of ' 4 for the dr: antic r,iu c omnia x nature

. • -lu -..i ti oovi i ;opl v.---ing w?.e faithfullyn n ^ J ^ _ 1 rM

i e ^ d , c-.»S u ciC. oruy r^.v.-'i •• Jr ;. :jr 'I)i,’J ,r .t" *v i . K ryrxv ,

««■— «•/» - “ijL l w-'»OU~r» ‘-V

id on, *r i\ i c ' months since>W■-it'/ ix!.ct »r.‘ c 2Qt& C,cn£rocs <

Lj, « s n "o •, v • i»-*v > vn- ,■«>» »»*JU *

.Ccn£v,0 £s of #ux ly enn ru.rendy bo ike. r e•* t i± t ’* doci do d

f i' ;•• yliii Ccn*sre.3s *'re I jl '% ct ’ '"‘.t.

’ | .. Qtl 1: .i >h .10 W j working d .y *.’7.3 oui; by two hours dn Sctmr-

■•}.: >•/ c*n c-nyc before pr.blic

. ;-ir ri-rfc.^o-v^t i3SS adopt- •1 ’n aev; 1 atf or Ctn^o pensions

i i <^:v5~djr fjly izj.yoving tho poo-

11 - '*?£ • r.rvte'ni-gr 1 • vp b.nr boan11 QOc^uod frcr 77 to 112 d-.ys.

• i jr oc.uc .tioii i :i the hich-v. ; c"‘ ,! s .* s- • c i sec one " r> schoc 1 sr.rj 1 in hi'GSfeior cd'3C*'tioii h -vO been r'boli£hod

cn> 'f 'tho books’ publirhed in 1938

Portmying^ neohnnic Basov r.s nn ndyrjiCei t;,po of Soviet mr.n ?.nd aoscribing the-heroic ncticn of the "Iterbont" crew Krymov avoids oil r.ffectntl'in' nnd embellishment. ■Hi o chnractera ?xe ss ordinary .f.4 enr. be- 1‘ie crew stnrts out nc nn indiferer--;, bnckwnrd body of men; flu plent a'vin^omant is oennorv^tivo. , • ; .

This book is by no r.onns r.n ox-^pxion to t!v rule. The un- rrernushed tSi’Uth r.nd profound un- Aorstsrylin^ of the mnrch of his- tcr.-y r.T to b^ found in Iilaknrsnko * s n,ihe Ho .d to ^iiet’ , Gl' dkov’s ‘ liner.-y :. ^vn-clovcky!s ’’The Countryoi r t o i u ' -nu mnny other books f the.cuy c-erird, -"-11 dealing

vr -••: 'tnunninj ^rcblor's of the dcy.

* - * V/ .-how** l\y hns t ^ n '.n-•jroduced for yc-iths of 16 18

■ .. .ir ? *:i 1\ ':o '-n for n f\ill vorkfnc f ’ ;* '‘■dult

• j vrrV - 'S, .t ; -

ripj^sT :..2r::ciiQN»

The wnr v.’ith f'-soisn was nlso for tlie mcst pnrt described vrithout nffJct^-tion, ir. its true colour. V/ho does not remember the articles of .vlozei Tolstoy nnd Ilyn l;hrenbur^ nbout the dnn^er ti'a’eat

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Spppp- 9 - ■

LITERATURE UNSEu IKS CULT (Concluded),

c n in g 'noscow , the poem s 'by O l g a B e r g g o l t s and W o c o l & i i i k h o n o v

ab o ut the s e ig e o f L e n i n g r a d , the s k e t c h e s o f K o n s t a n t i n S im o no v

f’nd Vasili Grossman about the d e f e n c e o f Stalingrad? I n the autumn of 1942, w hen the fascists were Kicking their big p u 3h on

the Volga. "Pravdr.* published Korneichuk's play ’’Front" with its straight fo r w ? x d . analysis c f t h e r e a s o n s f o r tha temporary set­b a c k s c f the Soviet .'.ray er*d i t s f ir r it ic t s s -fit b a c k w a rd military^

leaders an d their e n t o u r a g e o f

ignorant ""ad f a w n i n g people.Without losing faith in victory for ?. single moment, Soviet l i t ­

erature d e p ic t e d th e w n r p r o f o u n d ­

ly and v e r a c i o u s l y .

The tendency to varnish reality was definitely most evident in post-war literature. But even in this period in its main trend Soviet Literature follow­ed the path of realism, the path cf truth and kinship with the people; it did not go back on its finest traditions. And this not only in bocks about the war pr in historical novels, but also in bcoks about postv.-'ir life . One may like or dislike Pavlenko's "Happiness", but it cannot be denied that the gr- ve aftermath cf war, the difficult­ies involved in reconversion, the troubles of the invalidedVoropayev are courageously and -------objectively presented in it . Galina Wikolayeva’s Harvest criticised for its occasional idyllic pictures on- poor chariot* i S i S ; ! but the Herculean task of rehabilitating a ecllective■ arm, the arsenal i r u » of « rtmkovs, th e complex processes by which people change ~nd develop -.re drawn with complete r^ lism.

Th° creative talent of Cfcclokhcv, Alaxfei Trlntoy and others of the -a-a-e.tian have today #ar<H and- rev-led new facet a a t.

honestrand*talented new writers, bomo of whom are mer.ti oned above, has appeared. Those writers h;;ve acmeved mucn .or

the multi-a- .tie: I iiteratur.r ?f the oov-et ,-nion.

few days ago a delegation of Soviet scientists returned from the Fifth International Congress of ^anthropologists and Ethno­graphers held in Philadelphia from September 1 to 9.

PHI LADSLTKIA " 0 NSB3 SS

Dr. Potekhin, leader of the dele­gation, had thi3 to say on his

return:

We found that there are many problems cf common interest to both Soviet and American scient­ists. At the same time we could not accept the point cf view of our ^marican colleagues on 2 series of questions concerning methods used. The majority of American ethnographers denied the theory of progress. They rec-J ognised changes but denied progres£

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1'' J r ' W i l e t v -vi '..'-7 '

* s* ' . • •• • - u -: v.1 ’ * • • r- ••nt* o f tn j per{,1c c.ro • s '^y *•*- *-» -t

- 1 pr*V ,3 i r ^ b .r. f Id by R ,, . "

* t t o n - u * ■-• pr.iwSn- .u/ r.ai * * . » . •.*, ^ W ^ c b o p l e / .n i cc '.rts ir r • •:,us.-; 3. .i..-- jr. . u M :- , %p • c~ . ^

l ia h n l hi; but: v.hon four pFc.-»irw&t J ?.'■ *\iiyr o f * '

Sw^ jw Ccurt ropli d to tha.v. c-'.rx>: "lo: ’• ivf,3 to publish*thcr . fio pHYt ^r^dcr *-h- .30, p o r . r / f

w h d y 9 @ K ; V : ^ a ' f c r t l t s l

^ , r \ ' ' : '■ '• - i - H & * -* -■ rM?a o~Jtl frow hie ^rfciolo it car be s o o a . h :rc fr . V,- a i t ■ V-. i 1’r'-.ly .

T? °?r ££?^0.* V fe}/,r *« so -1 irv* v:nd toftfe •'iafco-tudTOO trutn? - •

- ,CT3;

, ■ r ' ■ * r ’r-' '’ •••'••••• ‘••’r:'-- '•:•• .. "nol^ia**t£ttl stiUs fcnd .T.Cf.iH -:3.r.uf .-.-turini* »': r. , n built in tho

‘ Ofv* ^ t.r-i'-jy .-hero >onc so^ntoon pillion jwoplo liva. flrr.i noro • .• < ; r is 4 ;*oUuc )d iinn

* : * * ’ ^ i£i 'n* Jr r - • • ? nut to.*5 eo™ 'r *• > * ifcu^a kinsolfadrsita^t.v.. Sjvle* Urs.nT ~r - -j ^ r . of TactorJoe

producing -cod* l-or, - i......i r j * »£-. ~ - in, U l o . T7h,ro#in ..tut colrnlM i . .v Dou-l-. fl: -i suet: thlnrs'’

. ould Jt not 1 -. -t si t-uth :oh icooroobor .t jd by fnc! " ■ c,- t , *i ; For.it is truo tfetit vrxn preciaoly aj r, ■ ,.-?r 0.** *>.. •} „r, L, :.t fc0Bi .3 *.u~t .+hn Coatr-.l iaal^put 1 *^ . ..., r - r ;v.,,iora

havo hooomo industrial md arra-*iar cour rio< ;

COrrr .DICTS

i.c D?u?1; r‘ • ^ :r .atr ial planta intao Canter'll Aaiun 3 c p i » M ia drrrir .tion is cxprossod

ordlnr bo M b, it, tk-.t iiwnlrtu ..liv'6o<i!y held tiw noro Inporta«t

p08^a . p r,"'r “ 11 '' P* -1 ' of cho c rjj.ti-' do tho unskillod -ort. -rut . '■’ourlns i|*r«oIf >a «; aorlttod th’tf "tK.ro arc Kasakh orifino.re, Urb- k i ^ r u , Efjrjhii sur-uniao.j, Turbxn unchtvnios and- *l(i. r.T.iATa . o -r.aU only su;jul«not.v, hiri •'hat ’ir. Douglas»Aa c .id. ■•..•••• ° WB

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•*,, t J rn - afor im ta rm * the director of tho Loninabad^ B. ; I : j.ro3- •# v,.- • . ' ■ i« a. :b.3idovt a Tajik.

rjjj huad^^f toha.-'Ki.'VcJtf; PctfolVja r ■r.tiel*. is S. av .«rlkl and tS i v'o 4 4 o f the' Turtarwri **ttrolouir. Corporation is Dada#hor,

" Tho c .iv-f ‘jK.vInovr .Of % pit gpe rated by t&i y»bok Coalf w « V 4 » - W ' •* » * « Any nuriwr of other oxarplo# could bo

.;V'r

V-.JQV ,■£ EIQHT3 AS C T 5 S y&TlOi’Al ■ ■ T7ES :

tift tnrth is tV-'.t Russians liTiar. %P O.ntr.l -sian Hopublioeilao work at in ’ustri '.1 orAorpri#---c, and tbs; • n-^ivo tho sfcx® pay an caiov the s .r*s rirtitF as do ^-bjrs of other natiomlitied truro. m / l f r . ncupl-.s a85..rts %fi*t A s ia n s .-.t noro pay than ^nbors of

■ r ; r'"» i<: •-‘ust ~aB informing hie

rcr ’bra .

7«3T COtTiWi PaOOKT^S:

COuId such vr.3t cultural ^rorr^ss hr.vc bean m d o in the Kopubllc* -'i^Oontrul Asia if thorc v,vro colortiuiisr thorj, as alleged by Mr. D-'url tf-' v'ir-*>'!f h vs folt cm:jstrained to adr.it that nodical oaro j8 uni-orsaily provided in Co-*m3 Asia, and tho dootors, hospital ttondarrts and nurso# in the30 3o publics arc TJzbok, Tajik, Kazakh, fur’caon and Kirghiz aon and -raacB* 2rory year soos xoro educational or. oponod in tho Central Asian Hopublios v*oro before tho

ovclvtion there vore Tory fovr lit ,r'-to people; and instruct ion thoro

is In the n .tiotsal l'-pgWigec of the jc^ntral Asian peoples. Thoro are no separate schools for Russians in -cntral iisfcv. Discrimination andsegr ration an? allor. to-tho Tory natur.i of tho Soviot Stato.

Iho following fact alon,-s ie onourrh to show how much tho cultural

star-dards of ttv oooplc ir the Centra' Asian ^pubjios hp.ro risen, in tho Turkrer. RnpublJo lono 80 odd newspapers and mg-zinos aro pub- lishod there in a mixed laa5u-.ee -half Persian and half Turieio - and

rurtawn people did not ’.mdorst-.nd it-*

Aondo’rioe of sc lories, with Vnoir -any aoiontifio rosearoh insti­tute 3 , ha-ro boon ononod and.ar fmictieeiinr in tho Central -eian re­publics. Xh • President of tho .cad,ny cf Soloncos of tho Kirghiz 3.3 Ji. is Prof. I. Akhuribayov, Corresponding Kbr.ber of the ..oadon - of

radical Soicnoo3 of tho TJ.3.S.A., a .Cirghiz by nationality; t^L’ r act or of the Kirrli? r Tfairorsity ifl 3. Jamflrehiyor, Doctor of Hiatorioal Scicnco, a Kirghiz, and the re-ctor of the Tajik University is

^oadomictan Ift.rsyki'.lov. a Tajii..

'■r'Z.^ZL T:si:''. C O .laTIC.'Ah A.ts BALLETS:

:v . Douflan hfcatolf attests that "I «A’»; Kirr>i* ballerinas, who h-vd boon traixud m Ibsoor:, porforriflt' inFrunzc with, a skill that vould put oTon the Bolshoi artists in JJosooiv an thoir r,wt.lo. Con»- DO, .rs*cf th-j Central Asian Jwpublicc havo oniatod national oporas ■lM ballot# for tHo first tin- in tho hi#tor/ of tho pooplo of those

Tv . publics.

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Do not -.11 tho«o attainnonts of th. paoplos of Control Asia in tho sphoro of culture and” r'-rt sh o w that thoRusaians rcnspdOt tho national oulturo, tr.ditions and scntirnonts of tho*e peoples?

:t .. Douglas aes-irte that ail ooononlo and political ;uostians

rh I oh oonoorn tho Contral Asian 'kopublios -«rv Iwcidod In Moscow and tho

mipublics noroly carry out lbs cow *5 cfdt-ra.

r^.ir a a DEiccr part i:: sotting all st . tt vypurnt

W,. Douglas jvidontly doo« not know t t tho ‘Jr.bok S. lashidov,

tho Turtewn'A. Saratov, tho Tajik H. Dodhudayov, tho Kirghiz T . Kulatov, and tiW ivazakh-Zh. P\shenov arc Vioo-Pr js idcnts of the Presidium of tho

Suprvno So'.'iwt of tho U .S .S .I:. IJolfchdr does ho say anything about tho fact that KCn*>rbera of thu nationalities of Co.rtral ^ l a havo boon <; luetod deputies to th' Suprorjo Soviet of tho U .S .S .R . and take a diroot

|.\rt in solving all state problems in tho U .S /3 *2* Suprozno Soviot,

«hleh is tho oountryhi^fost orrxn if powr.

It i3 r. truly startlinr diaoovufy that :.Y. Dourlas has nado, judg­ing by his statorwnt, thit thuro aro spocial courts for tho trial of Russians in Central Asia. Thora aro no sopar-.to courts for Russians or nonbers of other nationalities living in tho Contral Asian Republics, .'.r. Douglas r.insolf hac adrittod that thj rtjority of tho judges thoro oorao fron tho local population. To that wo ruy add that judioial pro­ceedings in tho U.S.S.R. aro c'*r. luctod in thu languago of tho Union or j.utononous Ropublic or ^utonoiious Region concerned, and pox*3 ons ■who do not*know thoso languages aro provided orcry possibility of acquainting thorsolvoa with tho mtcrlal portaining to tho c .so through an inter­preter, and thoy also h&va tho rirht to spc-k in oourt in thoir own

tongue.

IJiTERVTBW VITH SOVIET PRESSt

Follo-wing his tour of Contral ,'isia, J.fr. Douglas told oorrospondonts of tho 3o,riut pros3 in on intorviow that 7,-hon pooplo havo thonsolvos soon tho t ings thoy talk about, they nritu tho truth. ’Vo oan only rogrot that !5r. Douglas hus aotod in oloar contradiction of hin declaration.

c/o Supreme Court of tho U.S .S .R .

15, Vorovsky Street, oscow, U.S.S.R.

Rospootfully yours,

Justices of tho U .S.S.R . Supremo Court

Us ran ^DURAlUCiAiOV (TTzbok S .S .R .)

Kalmrnod PEvLIYEV (Turknon S.S.R.)

‘astibok :<x.DJA3EX0V (Tajik S.S.R.) Abdykasyr. 3UPATAYEV (Kirghiz S.S.R.)

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RECORDS RELATING TO THE 'TREASON TRIAL' (REGINA vs F. ADAMS AND OTHERS ON CHARGE OF HIGH TREASON, ETC.), 1956 1961 TREASON TRIAL, 1956 1961

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